Pencil support



March 16 1926.

F. GIESE PENCIL SUPPORT Filed Dec. 10, 1925 INVENTOR ATTOBNE PatentedMar. 16, 1926.

UNITED sra'rEs FRANK GIESE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PENCIL SUPPORT.

Application filed December 16, 1925. Serial No. 74,550.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK GIESE, a citizen of the United States, andresident of the city of New York, in the county of Bronx and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in PencilSupports, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to stationcry, and more particularly to apencil support.

The most common pencil supports are in the form of racks, on which thepencils are placed when not in use. No means being provided forfastening the pencils to the rack or like support, the pencils are oftenmislaid or frequently carried along by the users. 7

The main object of the present invention is to provide a support havinga simple and inexpensive means mounted thereon for securing the pencilto the support, said means being, preferably, in the form of aspringpressed reel to which is attached one end of a suspending string,the other end of the said string being fastened to or engaged with thepencil, means being provided for automatically winding the string uponthe reel, at the will of the user.

Another object of the invention is to produce a pencil support of thecharacter mentioned which is simple in construction, efficient inoperation, durable in use and capable of manufacture on a commercialscale, or in other words one which is not so difficult to make as to bebeyond the reasonable cost of such a contrivance.

With these and other objects in view, which will more fully appear asthe nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists inthe combination, arrangement and construction of parts hereinafterdescribed, pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, it being understood that many changes may be madein the size and proportion of the several parts and details ofconstruction within the scope of the appended claims, without departingfrom the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

One of the many possible embodiments of accordance with the presentinvention; Fig. 2 is a section taken on line 22 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 isa section taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1, on a larger scale.

7 In the drawings, the numeral 10 indicates a base, which may be of anysuitable configuration. In the case illustrated, the base is in the formof a spring clip, adapted to be engaged with a blotter pad, such as areusuall found upon desks or writing tables. The bi otter pad is insertedbetween the two resilient arms 11 and 12 of the clip, whereby the latteris securely held in position upon the pad. Upon this base is mounted thepencil support, as will hereinafter appear, attention being, however,called to the fact that the base need not be in the form of a clip butmay be of any other type in case it is to be secured, for instance, byscrews to the desk or writing table, or if it is to be hung upon a wallof other support. To the base is fixed a hollow spindle 13, the free endof which is provided at diametrically opposite portions with twolongitudinal slots 14, for a purpose hereinafter to be described.

Upon this spindle is rotatably mounted a, preferably, circular. housing15, one fiat head of which, denoted by the numeral 16, rests upon thebase, while its other head fits onto the free end of the spindle 13.Within this housing is disposed a reel 17, which is loosely mounted uponthe spindle 13, the said spindle extending through the heads 18 and 19of the reel. The reel is connected with the spindle by a spring coil 20,one end of which is secured to the spindle,while its other end isattached to the reel, the said spring, when under tension, having atendency to turn the reel on the spindle in the direction of the arrowshown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. On the reel is adapted to be wound astring 21, the inner end of the said string being secured to the saidreel. The string passes through an aperture 22 in the housing and hasattached to its outer free end a sleeve 23, into which a pencil 24 maybe fitted.

As clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the head 18 of the reelrests upon the head 16 of the housing, while the head 19 of the reel isspaced from the other head of the housing, In the head 19 of the reel isprovided a plurality of radial grooves or depressions 25, thelongitudinal edges of which are rounded, as clearly shown in Fig. 3 ofthe drawings. With these depressions co-operates a cylindrical pin 26,which is seated in the slots 14 in the spindle 13, the said pin beingcentrally provided with a lug 27, fitted into said spindle. A coilspring 28 is disposed within the spindle, it bearing against the pin 26and the opposite head of the housing 15, the said. spring having atendency to seat the said pin in two diametrically extending grooves 25in the head 19 of the reel.

In use, the base of the contrivance is mounted upon a blotter pad.Assuming that. the string is wound upon the reel and that the pin 26 isseated in a pair of grooves 25 in the head 19 of the reel, it obviousthat the pencil is supported by the device, the inner end of the sleeve23 bearing against the outer face of the cylindrical portion of thehousing 15. If it is intended to use the pencil, the operator takes holdof the same and pulls on the attaching string until the latter has beenWithdrawn from the housing the desired distance. As the string is beingunwound from the reel,

the latter is rotated and the spring 20 put under tension. In unwindingthe string, the pin 26 rides over the grooves 25 in the reel head 19,dropping into a pair oi grooves as soon as the operator ceases to pullon the string, whereby the reel is held in fixed relation to the spindle13 and, consequently, the spring 20 is kept under tension. After use,the operator gives the string aquick jerk, whereby the pin 26 isunseated from the grooves 25 which it has occupied, thereby permittingthe spring 20 to rotate the reel and thus to wind the string onto saidreel. The housing is mounted rotatably upon the base 10 to permit it tobe shifted by the operator into any desired position, therebyfacilitating the unwinding of the string from the reel.

What I claim is:

1. The conibi'iiation with a base, of a hollow spindle fixed to saidbase provided in diametrically opposite portions of its free end withlongitudinal slots, a housing ":0- tatably mounted upon said spindlehaving an aperture, a reel within said housing rotat-ably mounted onsaid spindle having in one of its heads radial grooves, a spring coilconnecting said spindle and said reel, a string fixed to said reel andadapted to be wound thereon, said string extending through saidaperture, a pin seated in the slots in said spindle adapted to engagethe grooves in said reel, and a spring acting on said pin having atendency to seat said pin in said grooves but permitting the same to beunseated from said grooves during the rotation of said reel on saidspindle.

2A device according to claim 1, comprising a lug on said pin disposed insaid spindle for preventing longitudinal movement ofsaid pin on saidspin'dle.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York,this 9th day of December, A. D. 1925.

FRANK GTESE.

